Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.